Par Aghnar le bisaïeul <aghnar666@caramail.com>

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I Introduction

II Installing Pang II

III Features & Planned Features

IV History

V Thanks to

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I-Introduction

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Pang II comes from a technical challenge between french programmers.
I'm the only one who code in C, the others are coding in ASM (FlashZ, eXor, P.Y.A. and martien1998).

This is only a technical demo, nevertheless it is 100% playable.
In fact, you are invincible, because player collisions are not yet implemented. Also, level and lives managments are not done.
There is also no constant speed. I have to stabilize the speed but it is not easy to find the good equilibre between speed and max balls.

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II-Installing Pang II

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First, you do not need any programs such as kernel, shell, patch, lib or more.

To install Pang II : Transfer to your calc the following files :

_ pang2

_ pang2exe (if you don't have yet a ppg launcher)

If you don't have any ppg launcher :
Simply make pang2exe() on the command line to run the game.

Now, you can have other possibility to launch the program, since the ppg has now become a high quality standard (Thanks to Thomas Nussbaumer for it)
For example, Tictex or Ash are recent shell which support the .ppg extension.

The program need 50K of RAM free to run, so it is advised to archive it.

The keys are : ([89] / [92+])

_ [2ND] / [HAND] : Shoot
_ [SHIFT] / [F5] : Toggle background / informations mode
_ [APPS] / [APPS] : Pause / Unpause
_ [ESC] / [ESC] : Quit game / Unpause
_ [ <> ] / [Mode] : Shut down calc
_ [+] / [+] : Augment contrast
_ [-] / [-] : Diminish contrast

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III-Features & Planned Features

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III-1)Features

_ Totally compatible between 89/92+.
_ The motor is able to animate 35 balls max with a reasonable speed.
_ Zoom routines.
_ Very Wide vertical clipping.
_ Removable informations.
_ Background in gray or black and white
_ 5 type of balls (the biggest one is 44x48 !!)

III-2)Planned Features

_ Menus with lot of options.
_ Bonus.
_ Multiplayer. (maybe in link)
_ Story/Arcade mode.

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IV-History

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05/2001 : Pang v0.1

* First public release.

* Written in C / Nostub / ppg.

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V-Thanks to

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_ Thomas Corvazier.

_ All the staff of ti-gcc.

_ All the staff of ticalc.org.

_ All the staff of ti-fr.org.

_ David Ellsworth, Rusty Wagner, Xavier Vassor, Julien Muchembled.

_ Jimmy Mardell, Patrick Davidson, Don Barnes.